Larry,
Here is a copy/paste copy of Brian's comments to my message.
I hope Brian does not mind.
Regards
Pertti Rönnberg
Since years back I have copied my bank's digital listing of my bank
account(s); first using MSOWord and later on MSOExcel. My intention is
to transform these listings so I can calculate with the currency
values in LibO-Calc. The bank's table has four cols: colA=date,
colB&colC= text and colD is the currency as text. Each listing
consists of several hundreds of events (rows). The problem is that the
damn bank -- against all standards -- gives the currency values with a
dot (".") as thousand separator and "+" or "-" chars (plus or minus)
in the right end of each number (e.g. "987,65+", "1.234,56-",
"23.456,78+") -- which is against Calc's will.
By now I have managed to get LibO/Calc to accept all values less than
9.999,99:
> first dragged (copied) the table from MSWord => MSExcel;
MSExcel-file saved in LibO/Calc as "ods"
I'm not sure why you want to use Microsoft Word or Excel. You can open
a .doc file in LibreOffice (as a text file) and copy and paste the table
into a spreadsheet there. You can open an .xls file directly in
LibreOffice. If your bank's original data is plain text or web
material, you can import this directly into a LibreOffice spreadsheet.
_Question:_
What formula/function gives the same result for the bank's currency
values bigger than 9.999,99?
e.g. "11.222,33+", "11.222.333,44-"
It's a bit messy, but this should work:
=VALUE(RIGHT(Xn;1)&SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(Xn;".";"");"+";"");"-";""))
Cannot get the Fixed() -- when trying to eliminate the separator/dot
that way -- working in this 'project' either.
This is no help. If you already had correctly interpreted numbers
(which you don't: that's the problem), FIXED() would convert these to
text (with which you then couldn't calculate) - exactly the opposite of
what you are trying to do. Once you have your real numbers, you can
control their appearance by choosing appropriate cell formats, of course.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
On 13.1.2014 19:15, Larry Evans wrote:
On 01/13/14 05:10, Pertti Rönnberg wrote:
Thank you Paul and Brian
for your interesting answers and for your kindness to send them so soon.
I have not checked them yet but I am sure that both of them give me what
I was looking for.
I see thepros and cons in Paul's method: by splitting the calculation in
details you can follow both the process and the reliability of the
result, but at cost of space.
But, there is more fun in Brian's solution; I have always liked to
create such complex formulas partly to be familiar with the spreadsheet
program and it's functions but now a days mostly because it is very good
exercise for an old man's brain --it is a challenge and then a good
reason to award yourself with a drink when it finally works.
I think I was quite near Brian's solution, but something went wrong, so
I had to shout for help.
[snip]
Hi Pertti,
I don't see Brian's reply to you(maybe he emailed you privately).
Could you please post it so other's could see it?
-regards,
Larry
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